Foraging ecology and nutrition of sea turtles

Abstract

The closest interaction of an organism with its environment is the ingestion of a subset of that environment and the subsequent alteration and absorption of that subset as it passes through the digestive tract of the organism. The absorbed nutrients fuel the productivity — both growth and reproduction — of the organism. The pivotal 200role that nutrition plays in the productivity of individuals and populations — and thus to the conservation of species — has often been overlooked.